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After a night at the St. Regis Abu Dhabi — a gorgeous hotel on the beach, a lovely suite, and great service for a short stay — I headed back to the Abu Dhabi airport for the relatively short flight to the Maldives.
Starwood Platinum members have a unique way to keep airline miles from expiring.
Starwood has a wide array of mileage transfer partners. Starwood Platinums have no minimum number of points they can transfer — they can literally transfer just a single point! That’s like free airline miles expiration extension.
Citi ThankYou Rewards is offering a one-third bonus on transfers to Hilton HHonors through February 8.
Hilton points are generally worth half a cent apiece. I value Citi points at 1.6 cents each. Getting two Hilton points per ThankYou point means transferring points at a value of a penny. Not. A. Good. Deal. In many cases you’re much better off just using Citi points to straight up buy travel. But even that’s not the best use of points.
There are empty restaurant spots in Concourses A, B, and C of Atlanta’s airport, as politics plays games with the ability of passengers to get food quickly during layovers.
Most airport restaurants are bad. It’s really hard to do food well given the security, traffic, space and contracting constraints airport restaurants face. But especially at hub airports it’s important for customers to be able to have access to food before and between flights.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
There are (3) rental car benefits of Visa Infinite I’m familiar with: National and Avis status and a 30% discount with Silvercar. Thing is that the real benefits don’t restrict you to actually having an eligible card.
Hotel cards often give 2 night stays. That’s great for a Friday to Sunday, or as part of a stay. But 3 nights makes a big difference for a trip. Here are some ideas for where to redeem your 3 complimentary nights in Europe.
American Express and Uber will give you 2 free rides from major airports through the end of the year valued up to $65 each, using any flavor of Uber you wish.
Register right away adding promo code AMEXAIRPORT in the Uber app, you don’t want them to run out of code uses before you do so. You need to have an Amex card as your payment method when you request a ride (even if the ride is going to be free) for this to work.
You can pretty much find tickets from Boston on most of the major airlines starting at $343, and to other destinations besides Barcelona and Madrid for prices in the $400s.
United has been strategy discussions until Investor Day and now they’ve revealed their plan.
The most concrete thing they offered — and which customers aren’t going to like — was the full details of Basic Economy which takes away elite mileage-earning, takes away upgrades, and even takes away the ability to bring on a rollaboard bag from non-elites.
However they talked at length about broader strategy for their product, their hubs, and where their opportunities are.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
